🌲🎙️🥾🦅Episode #6 | Part 1

♻️Sorting Trash, Spotting Ravens & Spilling Life Tea

"Humanity is Highly Combustible..."

The Go Wildly Podcast is what happens when two childhood friends & dirtbag adventure junkies and decide to bring a mic into the wilderness. We’re Emily & Heather...equal parts heart and chaos...pulling stories out of people like snacks from the bottom of a backpack. We hike. We float. We talk. And somehow, in between all the laughs and mosquito bites, something real always surfaces.

We take outdoor enthusiasts of all kinds into the woods & find out the common tread that lend them to make the outdoors more then just a hobby but a calling.

We're goofy. We’re deep. We’re a little unhinged. And we somehow bring that out in our guests too. Think campfire vibes meets podcast energy...with just enough weird to keep things interesting.

Together let’s GO WILDLY!

Today's Guest: Christy Chow

In this episode, Emily sits down with Christy Chow—environmental consultant, triple-degree holder, and longtime friend—for a wide-ranging conversation that covers everything from career pivots to climate grief.

The two talk through Christy’s academic journey, finishing her master’s during COVID, and the realities of working in environmental policy today. They unpack the aftermath of the Southern Oregon wildfires, the complicated relationship between zero waste and disaster response, and how COVID shifted the culture around single-use items. Plus, personal reflections on navigating adulthood, stepping away from social media, manifesting big changes, and the ways friendship can grow through it all.

🌎What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

🔥What the Talent and Phoenix wildfires revealed about community and resilience
♻️How COVID flipped the zero waste movement on its head
🤸🏽The behind-the-scenes chaos of working in sustainability during a global crisis

Connect with Christy

Please email [email protected] & we will personally connect you.

Filmed on Location:

Green Spring Mountain Loop Trail

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